In the wake of their Sunday Night Football loss to the Atlanta Falcons, the Minnesota Vikings’ injury report is awfully crowded, but it’s the name at the top of the list that’s given fans of the purple something to talk about.

And, perhaps, an opportunity to strap on their tinfoil hats.

At his press conference on Monday, Vikings’ head coach Kevin O’Connell said that quarterback J.J. McCarthy had suffered a high ankle sprain during Sunday night’s loss and would likely be out for two to four weeks. No word yet on whether or not the Vikings would place him on IR, which would put him out of action until Week 8 at the earliest.

McCarthy is believed to have suffered the injury on a scramble near the sideline in the third quarter on what may have been one of those “hip drop” tackles that the l

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